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This course serves as an introduction to the study of English literature in many of its aspects: literary theory, literary history, genre, textual analysis, critical vocabulary, etc. We will start with an attempt to define the object of our discipline by asking what literature (and particularly English literature) is. Looking at text samples from different genres, cultures and historical periods, we will then be concerned with the fundamentals of a scholarly approach to literature, i.e. the terminology, concepts and technical terms necessary for analysing and interpreting literary texts. The Edinburgh Introduction (see below) will be used as a set text – please buy your own copy. Please also buy Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Further texts will be provided online. We will also deal with Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. Excerpts will be provided, but feel free to buy your own copy!
- Dermot Cavanagh et al. (eds., 2014), The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature, 2nd ed., Edinburgh University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0748691326.
- Henry James (1898, 2008), The Turn of the Screw, Oxford World Classics, ISBN-13: 978-0199536177.
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